Urban Shades Quilt

Hi everyone! I’m Andrea Harris and I’m excited to share this tutorial with you today. It uses Sweetwater’s Mama Said Sew collection, and can be assembled quickly and easily. If you have any questions or if you make your own “Urban Shades Quilt”, please feel free to email me or contact me through my blog at Millions of Thoughts . I would love to hear from you!

From each of the 12 cream print fat quarters cut:
2 – 6.5″ x 14.5″
2 – 2.5″ x 6.5″ (cut one additional pair from a random cream print to make a total of 26 strips)

This quilt is made up of two blocks, A & B, and can be assembled in a scrappy or matched way. For this tutorial, I have written instructions as the quilt is pictured, with colours in a particular organized order:

Block A Sewing Instructions: (14.5″block)

You will make 9 grey blocks and 4 black blocks. Of the 9 grey blocks, two will have a red accent center, rather than the cream.

For steps 5 through 8, I coordinated black 2.5″ squares with a cream/red/black print and grey squares with plain cream/grey/black. For the two red/grey accent blocks, I matched a red/cream print with a grey. See photos for examples.

5. Sew a 2.5″ x 2.5″ dark square to a 2.5″ x 6.5″ cream PRINT:

6. Sew a 2.5″ x 6.5″ cream PRINT to complete the center strip:

7. Sew the center strip to one of the rectangle blocks:

8. Sew a matching rectangle to complete Block A:

Block B Sewing Instructions: (14.5″block)

1. Sew a 2.5″x 14.5″ dark strip to a 6.5″x 14.5″ cream print:

(I matched the light prints with red in them to the 2.5″ x 14.5″ black strips. Light prints with grey/black were matched with grey strips)

2. Sew the matching 6.5″ x 14.5″ cream print to complete the block:

Once your blocks are all complete, arrange them in an alternating pattern and sew your rows together. You can choose to do this in a random pattern, but I chose to group black accent blocks together and grey accent blocks together :

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